Rachel P. Maines is an independent scholar, collections archivist, and a technical
processing assistant in the Nestle Library in Cornell University's School of Hotel
Administration. Recipient of the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis
Prize for her groundbreaking and provocative history of androcentric models of
sexuality, The Technology of Orgasm:'Hysteria', the Vibrator, and Women's
Sexual Satisfaction and author of numerous articles and reviews, Maines'
feminist scholarship has been hailed as "exquisitely referenced" (Library
Journal) and "thorough, original, and surprising" (Susan Boxer, New York
Times Book Review). Maines' work has been reviewed by national as well as
international publications.
In "Medicine, Technology, and the Androcentric Model of Sexuality," Maines will address the history of heterosexual coitus as a normative model in
medicine and the pathologizing of other expressions of woman's sexuality,
including the uses of devices to treat these supposed "pathologies." She will
also address the current implications of the double standard regarding the
androcentric model (e.g., there are eight states which laws against the sale of
vibrators and/or dildos, but no states with laws against the sale of Viagra.)
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